List of German Ministers-President by longevity

This is a list of the 50 oldest Ministers-President of Germany since 1945 by longevity. The oldest current governing Ministers-President is Winfried Kretschmann (born 17 May 1948) from Baden-Württemberg. Where the person in question is still living, the longevity is calculated up to 6 May 2024.

Rank	Ministerpräsident	Date of Birth	Date of Death	Age	States of Germany
1	Werner Bruschke	18 August 1898	17 February 1995	96 years, 185 days	Saxony-Anhalt
2	Bernhard Quandt	14 April 1903	6 August 1999	96 years, 114 days	Mecklenburg
3	Richard von Weizsäcker	15 April 1920	31 January 2015	94 years, 291 days	West Berlin
4	Bruno Diekmann	19 April 1897	11 January 1992	94 years, 267 days	Schleswig-Holstein
5	Max Seydewitz	19 December 1892	8 February 1987	94 years, 51 days	Saxony
6	Hans Filbinger	15 September 1913	1 April 2007	93 years, 198 days	Baden-Württemberg
7	Franz Meyers	31 July 1908	27 January 2002	93 years, 180 days	North Rhine-Westphalia
8	Hans Ehard	10 November 1887	18 October 1980	92 years, 342 days	Bavaria
9	Wilhelm Kaisen	22 May 1887	19 December 1979	92 years, 211 days	Bremen
10	Wilhelm Hoegner	23 September 1887	5 March 1980	92 years, 163 days	Bavaria
11	Hubert Ney	12 October 1892	3 February 1984	91 years, 114 days	Saarland
12	Gebhard Müller	17 April 1900	7 August 1990	90 years, 112 days	Württemberg-Hohenzollern; Baden-Württemberg
13	Arthur Werner	15 April 1877	27 July 1967	90 years, 103 days	Greater Berlin
14	Alfred Kubel	25 May 1909	22 May 1999	89 years, 362 days	Brunswick; Lower Saxony
15	Hans-Jochen Vogel	3 February 1926			West Berlin
16	Karl Steinhoff	24 November 1892	19 July 1981	88 years, 237 days	Brandenburg
17	Heinrich Drake	20 December 1881	12 June 1970	88 years, 174 days	Schaumburg-Lippe
18	Kurt Sieveking	21 December 1897	22 March 1986	88 years, 91 days	Hamburg
19	Heinrich Welsch	13 October 1888	23 November 1976	88 years, 41 days	Saarland
20	Herbert Weichmann	23 February 1896	9 October 1983	87 years, 228 days	Hamburg
21	Klaus von Dohnanyi	23 June 1928			Hamburg
22	Werner Klumpp	12 November 1928			Saarland (interim)
23	Hans Koschnick	2 April 1929			Bremen
24	Alfons Goppel	1 October 1905	24 December 1991	86 years, 84 days	Bavaria
25	Klaus Schütz	17 September 1926	29 November 2012	86 years, 73 days	West Berlin
26	Kurt Biedenkopf	28 January 1930			Saxony
27	Helmut Kohl	3 April 1930			Rhineland-Palatinate
28	Max Brauer	3 September 1887	2 February 1973	85 years, 152 days	Hamburg
29	Ferdinand Friedensburg	17 November 1886	11 March 1972	85 years, 115 days	Greater Berlin (interim)
30	Rudolf Paul	30 July 1893	28 February 1978	84 years, 213 days	Thuringia
31	Ernst Albrecht	29 June 1930	13 December 2014	84 years, 167 days	Lower Saxony
32	Kai-Uwe von Hassel	21 April 1913	8 May 1997	84 years, 17 days	Schleswig-Holstein
33	Erich Vagts	9 February 1896	20 February 1980	84 years, 11 days	Bremen
34	Kurt Georg Kiesinger	6 April 1904	9 March 1988	83 years, 337 days	Baden-Württemberg
35	Rudolf Jahn	4 November 1906	30 September 1990	83 years, 330 days	Brandenburg
36	Rudolf Petersen	30 December 1878	10 September 1962	83 years, 282 days	Hamburg
37	Heinrich Hellwege	18 August 1908	4 October 1991	83 years, 47 days	Lower Saxony
38	Peter Schulz	25 April 1930	17 May 2013	83 years, 22 days	Hamburg
39	Bernhard Vogel	19 December 1932			Rhineland-Palatinate; Thuringia
40	Carlo Schmid	3 December 1896	11 December 1979	83 years, 8 days	Württemberg-Hohenzollern (interim)
41	Georg Diederichs	2 September 1900	19 June 1983	82 years, 290 days	Lower Saxony
42	Christian Stock	28 August 1884	13 April 1967	82 years, 228 days	Hesse
43	Carl-Ludwig Wagner	9 January 1930	27 July 2012	82 years, 200 days	Rhineland-Palatinate
44	Helmut Lemke	29 September 1907	15 April 1990	82 years, 198 days	Schleswig-Holstein
45	Willy Dehnkamp	22 July 1903	12 November 1985	82 years, 113 days	Bremen
46	Theodor Steltzer	17 December 1885	27 October 1967	81 years, 314 days	Schleswig-Holstein
47	Reinhold Maier	16 October 1889	19 August 1971	81 years, 307 days	Württemberg-Baden; Baden-Württemberg
48	Walter Wallmann	24 September 1932	21 September 2013	80 years, 362 days	Hesse
49	Rudolf Amelunxen	30 June 1888	21 April 1969	80 years, 295 days	North Rhine-Westphalia
50	Otto Ostrowski	28 January 1883	16 June 1963	80 years, 139 days	Greater Berlin

See also

• List of German Presidents by longevity
• List of longest governing German Ministers-Presidents